No smartass replies I’m serious I need to know I’m doing a paper.

Edit: Here I am being a shithead trying to come up with the dumbest question possible and people are getting all informative on me.

  • They didn’t as they didn’t exist yet.

    Non-internet viruses spread through other kinds of networks or by physically installing them from portable media.

    (Real answer: The first virus was made in 1971 and was spread much the same way now, over ARPANET, the “proto-internet”. It was called Creeper. So technically, there were no viruses before the invention of the internet)